273 Sayings of Italian Origin
1. "Every door may be shut but death's door." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "Big mouthfuls often choke." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "Short is the road that leads from fear to hatred." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "What you can't have, abuse." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "Where gold speaks every tongue is silent." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "If you would succeed, you must not be too good." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "It is better to give away the wool than the sheep." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "It is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "He who has no patience, has nothing at all." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "Sorrow makes gray hairs before the time." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "It is the blood of the soldier that makes the general great." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "He who goes not into battle cannot wear a crown." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "The hidden things of wisdom and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is in them both?" (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "Good is good, but better beats it." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "To him who is determined it remains only to act." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "It is not for the blind to give an opinion on colors." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "Substance is not enough, accident is also required." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "He is a friend when you sneeze, all he says is “God bless you”." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "The rich never have to seek out their relatives." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "What you reap is what you sow." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "Who suffers from love, feels no pain." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "A bow that is bent too far will break." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "To him that watches, everything is revealed." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "The healthy die first." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "What is done cannot be undone." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "Does your neighbor bore you? Lend him some money." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "One minute of patience can result in ten years of peace." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "Misfortune does not always result in harm." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "Do not sell sun in July." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "One would not be alone even in Paradise." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "Those who don't understand prayer let them go to sea." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "Old habits die hard." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "Necessity is a great teacher." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "Six feet of earth will make us all equal." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "There is a deep sea between saying and doing." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "After the game the King and pawn go into the same box." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "Gold is the devil's fishhook." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "Eat and drink with your relatives, but do business with strangers." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "He who never begins will never end." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "Tenderness can be a bad judge." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "The purse of loved ones is tied with a gossamer thread." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "She who is born a beauty is born betrothed." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "One can never be too careful." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "One should learn to sail in all winds." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer's garden." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children who are obliged to call him Uncle." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "The best way to get praise is to die." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "He who laughs too much, is hiding his grief." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "A fool's spark glows in all men." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "Pride comes before fall." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "With patience you go beyond knowledge." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "The best defense is attack." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "Go early to market and as late as you can to battle." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "Out of a white egg often comes a black chick." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "You cannot flay a stone." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "Men are as old as they feel, women as old as they look." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "He who serves the public has a sorry master." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "You cannot write down a meaningful silence." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "Of two evils choose the least." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "Don't judge a horse by its harness." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
75. "Let not your tongue say what your head may pay for." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
76. "Who well begins, is half way through his task." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
77. "You don't go to heaven in a carriage." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
78. "When the tree is down, everyone runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
79. "Who knows most, knows least." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
80. "To taste the sweet, you must taste the bitter." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
81. "All that dangles does not fall." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
82. "If you are determined, just do it!" (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
83. "A market is three women and a goose." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
84. "He who has not obeyed, cannot command." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
85. "All the brains are not in one head." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
86. "Shortcuts are often longcuts." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
87. "He is a sorry barber who has but one comb." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
88. "Too much prosperity makes most men fools." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
89. "When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
90. "Today for me, and tomorrow for you." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
91. "Where there are no hounds the fox is king." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
92. "When the danger is past God is cheated." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
93. "Foolish boys, wise men." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
94. "One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
95. "Between wife and husband don't put a finger." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
96. "Virginity is noted only in its absence." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
97. "From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
98. "Masters hints are commands." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
99. "Every man is nearest himself." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
100. "Between two cowards, the first to detect the other has the advantage." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
101. "He who has the Pope for a cousin soon becomes a Cardinal." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
102. "Even a frog would bite if it had teeth." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
103. "A little man often casts a long shadow." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
104. "Let every fox take care of his own tail." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
105. "Every excuse is good, if it works." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
106. "He who takes a woman gives away his freedom." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
107. "Everyone thinks his own cross is heaviest." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
108. "It is a bad game where nobody wins." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
109. "Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, storm and hail." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
110. "It's no time to play chess when the house is on fire." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
111. "Necessity knows no law." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
112. "He that jokes confesses." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
113. "If pride were a disease, how many would be already dead?" (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
114. "No good lawyer ever goes to court himself." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
115. "He who builds by the roadside has many surveyors." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
116. "If you stumble more than once over the same stump, you have no one to blame but yourself." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
117. "To a quick question give a slow answer." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
118. "Such father, such son." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
119. "An ocean lies between what is said and what is done." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
120. "The joker confesses." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
121. "In a hundred years we will be dead anyway." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
122. "The second thought is always the best." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
123. "A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
124. "Caution is the mother of safety." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
125. "Failures are but mileposts on the road to success." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
126. "Applaud the man who cheats a cheater." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
127. "The fish rots from the head." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
128. "It's a bad plan that cannot be changed." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
129. "With the first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
130. "If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must come to the mountain." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
131. "Money begets money." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
132. "Expect nothing from friends, do what you can do yourself." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
133. "He who knows little quickly tells it." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
134. "Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
135. "Hasty climbers have sudden falls." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
136. "If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
137. "Mills and wives are ever wanting." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
138. "Not everything, which is bad, comes to hurt us." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
139. "All are not saints who go to church." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
140. "A hundred-year-old revenge still has its baby teeth." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
141. "If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
142. "When it thunders the thief becomes honest." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
143. "No pear falls into a shut mouth." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
144. "Better give a penny than lend twenty." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
145. "As soon as a new law is made, a way around it is devised." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
146. "Where there is nothing to gain, there is a lot to lose." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
147. "Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
148. "He who is not impatient is not in love." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
149. "The scent of every flower is short lived." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
150. "If you want to buy love, love itself is the price you'll have to pay." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
151. "He who sups with the devil must use a long spoon." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
152. "When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
153. "If you have a good cellar at home don't go drinking at the tavern." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
154. "Delayed is preferable to never." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
155. "The eye is blind if the mind is absent." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
156. "Old wine and friends improve with age." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
157. "Experience runs a valuable school, but fools learn in no other." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
158. "Help yourself and God will help you." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
159. "A donkey cannot trot for long." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
160. "The person who lives by hope will die by despair." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
161. "Old thanks cannot be used for new gifts." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
162. "Better untaught than ill taught." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
163. "Years and sins are always more than admitted." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
164. "A good anvil fears no hammer." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
165. "Voice of one, voice of none." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
166. "Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
167. "Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
168. "A thorn has a small point, but the person who feels it does not forget its sting." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
169. "It is the first shower that wets." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
170. "Who needs, inquire." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
171. "A rakish bachelor makes a jealous husband." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
172. "A little truth helps the lie go down." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
173. "God save me from a bad neighbor and a beginner on the fiddle." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
174. "The good stuff, think about it." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
175. "To a weaving that has begun, God sends threads." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
176. "The best armor is to keep out of range." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
177. "Old friends are always new." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
178. "Many pupils have gained more wealth than their masters." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
179. "Never reveal the bottom of your purse or the depth of your mind." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
180. "The best advice one can give to the hungry is bread." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
181. "What does not poison, fattens." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
182. "Many people can pack the cards; fewer can play the game." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
183. "Who seeks a quarrel will find it near at hand." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
184. "Often he who does too much does too little." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
185. "Yes and no rule the world." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
186. "After the storm ends, the sun will shine." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
187. "Feather by feather the goose is plucked." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
188. "A kiss without a moustache is like beef without mustard." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
189. "He wastes his tears who weeps before the judge." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
190. "You cannot make the mule drink when he is not thirsty." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
191. "Where there is no temptation there is no glory." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
192. "What pay, such work." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
193. "To him who is determined it remains only to act." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
194. "It is not enough to aim; you must hit." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
195. "Gifts of enemies are no gifts." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
196. "Such mother, such daughter." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
197. "When I'm dead, everybody's dead, and the pig too." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
198. "Better one now, than two in the future." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
199. "If you dig a pit for others, you might fall into it yourself!" (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
200. "Love begins with song and music and ends in a sea of tears." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
201. "What worth has beauty if it is not seen?" (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
202. "There's no thief like a bad book." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
203. "In the house of the shoemaker there are no shoes." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
204. "The more the fox is cursed, the more prey he catches." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
205. "Vices are learned without a master." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
206. "Enemy divided, half won." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
207. "A lover's anger is short-lived." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
208. "God sends us the meat, but it is the Devil who sends us cooks." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
209. "He who knows nothing doubts nothing." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
210. "Drink water like an ox, wine like the king of Spain." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
211. "A burden that one chooses is not felt." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
212. "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
213. "The countries you visit, the customs you find." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
214. "To preserve friendship, one must build walls." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
215. "It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
216. "Skip the enjoyment that you will regret." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
217. "Better to turn back, than to painfully move forward." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
218. "He who does as he likes has no headache." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
219. "Who by himself can do anything, do not wait for others to do." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
220. "Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
221. "Hope is the last thing ever lost." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
222. "Who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
223. "Love makes all equal." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
224. "A new broom sweeps well the house." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
225. "Actions are male, words female." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
226. "The person who offends writes as if it was written on sand, and the person who is offended reads it as if it were written on marble." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
227. "Patience is a plant that does not grow in everyone's garden." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
228. "The person who enjoys good health is rich, even if he doesn't know it." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
229. "To whom much is entrusted, much is required." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
230. "Happiness that lasts too long spoils the heart." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
231. "Be fair to the devil." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
232. "Strike while the iron is hot." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
233. "The remedy is often worse than the disease." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
234. "Many are brave when the enemy flees." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
235. "Every dog is a lion at home." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
236. "It is better to say “here he ran” than “here he died”." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
237. "The aim is more to the effect of affection." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
238. "When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
239. "Not every truth is good to be told." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
240. "In the house of the hanged man, mention not the rope." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
241. "If only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?" (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
242. "Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
243. "Hunger is the best sauce." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
244. "No woman ever speaks the naked truth." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
245. "Our last garment is made without pockets." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
246. "Bed is the poor man's opera." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
247. "The poorhouse is full of honest people." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
248. "Those who begin many things finish but a few." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
249. "Anger can be an expensive luxury." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
250. "Fools grow without watering." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
251. "No wonder lasts more than three days." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
252. "Never point out the mistakes of another with a dirty finger." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
253. "Everything is good for something." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
254. "A doctor and a clown know more than a doctor alone." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
255. "There's no fool like a learned fool." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
256. "They say so, is half a lie." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
257. "It is better to be condemned by many doctors than by one judge." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
258. "He that has a head of glass must not throw stones at another." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
259. "The comforter's head never aches." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
260. "Old saints don't get incense anymore." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
261. "It is better to lose the saddle than the horse." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
262. "Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
263. "No sooner is a law made than a way around it is discovered." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
264. "Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
265. "One devil does not make hell." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
266. "One may have good eyes and yet see nothing." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
267. "When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
268. "I might have lost my ring, but I still have my fingers!" (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
269. "Better a mouse in the pot than no stew at all." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
270. "Speak of the Devil and he appears." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
271. "Who serves the public, serves no one." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
272. "It is easy to frighten the bull from the window." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
273. "The anvil lasts longer than the hammer." (Italian Sayings) Click to tweet
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